1892 in art

The year 1892 in art involved some significant events.

Events

February â Claude Monet begins painting his Rouen Cathedral series
c. February â Alfred Gilbert is commissioned to sculpt the tomb (with recumbent effigy) of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, in the Albert Memorial Chapel of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England; although not finished until 1928 it is substantially complete in 1898 as "the finest single example of late 19th-century sculpture in the British Isles"^[1]
March â James McNeill Whistler stages his major retrospective exhibition, Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet pieces at Goupil & Cie's London gallery, then moves to Paris
April 4 â Munich Secession
May
- The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art
- Claude-Charles Bourgonnier is barred from exhibiting art at the Paris Salon for a two-year period after tearing up one of his own paintings while it is on display^[2]
November â "The Munch Affair": Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invites Edvard Munch to stage a one-man exhibition. However, his paintings evoke bitter controversy and after one week the exhibition is closed; Munch's paintings are moved to the Equitable Palast^[3]
Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Herbert MacNair are introduced to Margaret and Frances MacDonald in Glasgow
Il Codice Magliabechiano, a 16th century collection of brief biographies and notes on the works of Italian artists by "Anonimo Gaddiano", is first published

29 February â Augusta Savage, African American sculptor (died 1962).
5 March - Dean Cornwell, American illustrator, painter, and muralist (died 1960)
14 March â Charles Wheeler, English sculptor (died 1974).
4 April â Italo Mus, Italian painter (died 1967)
8 May â Luigi Del Bianco, Italian-born American sculptor (died 1969)
12 May â Colin Gill, English war artist, muralist and portrait painter (died 1940).
14 May â Marjorie Watson-Williams, English painter (died 1984).
19 May â Wilhelm Heise, German painter (died 1965).
30 May â Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (died 1972).
31 May â Michel Kikoine, painter (died 1968).
30 June â Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, German painter (died 1966).
15 July â Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatists" and art critic (died 1940).
July 19 â Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (died 1972).
July 24 â Marcel Gromaire, French painter (died 1971).
7 August â Einar Forseth, Swedish artist.
16 August â Otto Messmer, American animator (died 1983).
11 October â Anton RÃ¤derscheidt, German painter (died 1970).
16 October â Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (died 1959).
23 November â Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (died 1990).
7 December â Stuart Davis, American painter (died 1964).
Undated
- Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (died 1995).
- Veljko StanojeviÄ, Serbian painter (died 1967).

January 11 â Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1844)
January 14 â Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect and illustrator (born 1803)
January 15 â Randolph Rogers, American neoclassical sculptor (born 1825)
January 20 â Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (born 1797)
February 27 â Louis Vuitton, French designer (born 1821)
March 3 â Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (born 1801)
March 21 â Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (born 1858)
June 1 â Louis Janmot, French painter (born 1814)
October 5 â Albert Aurier, French Symbolist poet, art critic and painter (born 1865)
October 7 â Thomas Woolner, English sculptor and poet (born 1825)
October 29 â William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (born 1848)
December 9 â Ernst Klimt, Austrian mural painter (born 1864)
Undated
- Walter Hood Fitch, British botanical artist (born 1817)
- Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter (born 1826)